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!! August Subscriber's Contest Winner !!
Bernadette Britton
Bernadette will be receiving her choice of Castle Glen products up to the value of $70.00 shortly. Best of luck to all of our subscribers for next month's draw!
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| Spicy Hot in the Winter Cold |
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Enjoy Liqueurs made with Real Ginger and Real Chillies.
At Castle Glen we have lots of warming treats for you to drink.
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| Ginger Liqueur |
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We Use The World's Best Ginger - Buderim Ginger
For That Real Ginger Taste!
We use the best quality ginger you can buy to make our Castle Glen Ginger Liqueur. Where does it come from? Queensland of course. Castle Glen is a Queensland Manufacturer and the best ginger in the World, Buderim Ginger, comes from Queensland. We like to 'keep it all in the family' so to speak. We use quality Queensland products to produce our liqueurs and our wonderful ginger liqueur is no exception.
Ginger is a definitely a real favourite with lots of people. Ginger Liqueur has wonderful healing properties and health benefits. Castle Glen has developed a whole range of ginger products:
Ginger Liqueur
Rum and Ginger
Lazey Knight - Single Malt Whiskey, White Chocolate & Ginger
Dragons Piss - Triple Strength Ginger & White Chocolate
Ginger Fortified Wine
Ginger Brew Spritz
Ginger Beer Sparkling - Champagne Style
Ginger Fudge
Ginger has been used for its health benefits for over 5000 years and is a favorite medicinal as well as culinary herb. Many people report that it will also relieve nausea, and can be effective in treating morning sickness as well as motion sickness. Ginger can also help reduce inflammation. So it can be used to treat any disease that is caused by inflammations such as arthritis or ulcerative colitis.
Studies are underway which aim to understand ginger's anti-cancer and immune-system enhancing properties. Ginger may also enhance the effects of anti-bacterials, such as antibiotics by as much as 50%. It has also been shown in animal trials to help slow or even prevent cancerous tumor growth.
Being a warming herb, ginger can help knock out a fever. It can also help relax muscles around the blood vessels and is said to help prevent blood clots from forming. The warming effects make it a natural decongestant as well as an antihistamine, making it the perfect remedy for colds.
The volatile oils in ginger cause more digestive enzymes to be produced which help with the whole digestion process and neutralizes the acids that can cause nausea, cramps and even diarrhea.
Ginger is so concentrated with active substances, you don't have to use very much to receive its beneficial effects. Real Ginger in our Ginger Liqueur is in a concentrated form, with all the amazing health benefits.
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| Where Has All The Real Wine Gone? |
Modern techniques and Chemical Cocktails
Let's unmask the latest 'tricks of the trade' ...
Do you really know what's in the wine you lift to your lips over dinner?
It's becoming increasingly difficult to tell. The new fly in the ointment: additives that go beyond the already enhanced tools of modern winemakers.
There's a new arsenal of chemicals out there, and while it's hard to pinpoint who is using them, major wine supply firms are selling tons of the stuff.
The winemaker's tool kit is full of legitimate modern techniques. Take yeast, which is needed to get fermentation going. In the old days, wineries relied on natural airborne yeasts to start the ferment. That was notoriously unreliable and often resulted in disaster. Most wineries today use a wide variety of cultured yeasts, specifically manufactured to help the winemaker control the ferment and get desired results.
Some ingredients that are added fall out in the winemaking process. Sugar is sometimes added to raise alcohol levels in fermentation, although most countries ban it, insisting only natural sugars in ripened grapes are permissible.
The issue of tannins has suddenly grown more controversial. Tannins are derived naturally from grape skins and stems, as well as from the oak in which wines can be fermented and barrel aged. For many years, cheaper wines have benefitted from the addition of barrel staves and oak chips, rather than using $1,000 new oak barrels. But the latest stuff about is called Tanin Plus, a powdered additive.
This is part of a brave (or cowardly) new world of performance enhancers that can mask defects, deepen colour and add flavours. They can also be used to keep a wine tasting consistent in years when nature is fickle or variable. It can be said that winemakers are correcting and even manipulating Mother Nature.
After a lousy growing year, some winemakers had struggle against the odds to produce good wine in a bad year. The best do this honestly. But how can other wineries continue to produce amazingly vibrant, succulent and aromatic wines, even in the bad years? Wines are definitely being manipulated and corrected the latest arsenal of chemical additives. Wineries really don't want to list the additives in their wines. However there is increasing consumer demands for honesty in wine labeling.
What kind of wine does Castle Glen produce?
Real Wine, like the Wine of Old with
NO Chemicals and NO Preservatives.
Drink Real Wine, Drink Healthy Wine, Drink Castle Glen!
Cheers (and bottoms up),
Cedric and Carol-Anne Millar
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Ginger Liqueur Apple Crumble
A wonderful spicy ginger apple crumble. Will definitely warm you up on a cold winters night!
Ingredients:
3-4 Apples
½ cup castor sugar
2 tbsp Ginger Liqueur (more if you really like ginger)
For the Crumble:
¾ cup unsalted butter at room temperature diced
1 ¼ cups polenta (or rolled oats, see below)
1 ¼ cups self raising flour
¼ cup castor sugar
Method:
1. Preheat oven to 170°C or 150°C (Fanforced)
2. Put the sugar, Ginger Liqueur and 1 ¼ cups water and bring to boil, turn down to simmer. Peel, quarter and core the apples, then cut the flesh into thick slices. Add to the syrup and cook for 45 minutes. Strain through a colander, reserving the syrup and leave to cool.
3. Make the crumble: put the butter into a bowl and allow to soften at room temperature. When soft, rub in the other ingredients to coarse crumb consistency, which takes about 4 minutes. It does not matter if you get some of it holding in large lumps!
4. Spread the apple pieces to cover the bottom of a deep-sided baking dish (square or round). Top evenly with the crumble and bake for 1 hour.
5. About 5 minutes before it is due to come out of the oven, warm the syrup through and put into a pitcher for people to help themselves, also offer heavy (thickened) cream at the table
If you are a real lover of ginger put 1 tsp of ginger (or as much as you like) into the cream and whip (if desired).
Another version of this recipe is to use rolled oats in place of the polenta. This recipe also works well with tropical fruit cut into large chunks then cook into the ginger syrup.
Ginger Cream
Ingredients:
600ml Cream (Thickened)
2 teaspoons Ginger Liqueur
Method:
Whip the cream and the Ginger Liqueur together until thick. Enjoy the ginger flavour on your Ginger Apple Crumble.
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Just remember. If you are going to Drink,
Drink Healthy, Drink Castle Glen!
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August Specials
Ginger Liqueur Special
With Every 700ml Bottle of Ginger Liqueur, receive a 50ml of Musk Stick Liqueur and 50ml of White Chocolate Liqueur FREE!!
- Ginger Liqueur 700ml
- Musk Stick Liqueur 50ml
- White Chocolate Liqueur 50ml
Website & Cellar Door Price $40.00
Order Now
Save $15.00
Montville & Eumundi Shop Price - $48.00
Save $17.00!
Castle Glen Port Special
- 6 x 700ml Port
- FREE FREIGHT!
Cellar Door Port Special
- 6 x 700ml Port
- 1 x Chocolate Port FREE!
Save $16.00
Montville & Eumundi Shop Port Special
- 6 x 700ml Port
- 1 x Chocolate Port FREE!
Save $18.00
All prices include GST
Prices do not include
Postage & Packing
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Afterburner Long Drink!
30ml Ginger Liqueur
20ml Musk Stick Liqueur
20ml White Chocolate Liqueur
Lemonade
Ice, to taste
1. Add ice to your glass to taste.
2. Add all of the Liqueurs to your long glass.
3. Pour over the lemonade.
4. Drink and enjoy.
Enjoy the flavours,
sweet and hot!
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